Harun Farocki

 

Harun Farocki (1944-2014) studied at the German Film and Television Academy in West Berlin (DFFB) from 1966 -1968. He realized more than a hundred productions for television, cinema and radio (documentaries, essay films, fiction, children's television, radio plays). Since 1995, he also made video installations for exhibition spaces. Farocki's films and installations have been shown widely in solo and group exhibitions worldwide, including documenta 12 in 2007. Farocki also worked as a writer, most notably for the journal Filmkritik, which he also co-edited between 1974 and 1983. He also taught film at various institutions, including DFFB; from 1993-1999 he was Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, from 2004 - 2011 visiting, later full Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.